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Excerpt from Growth of the Spirit of Christianity, Vol. 2: From the First Century to the Dawn of the Lutheran Era Time had come when the material armour was to be placed above the spiritual, and the authority Of Rome was to be established by weapons which no intel lectual culture could blunt or break. That political revolution which placed Pepin on the throne of France enabled the bishop of the seven hills to take his first step in the ascent to the throne of the world. The concurrence of Rome in the elevation of Pepin made that monarch its debtor, and it was not long ere the debt was paid. The payment was made in the form of a temporal possession: Ravenna was conquered from the Lombards, and delivered over, as a permanent inheritance, to the Roman See. That gift was only the prelude to others. Thick and fast the temporal donations to the chair of St. Peter came crowding in, and before the century closed it had already a claim to rank amongst the secular powers Of the earth. It is from this epoch of temporal dominion that we date the true rise of the Papacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.